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Why would the world be safer?

If I have to read about an attention whore I'd prefer them to be bat shit crazy. It makes the stories more interesting.

I thought of this when I read the summery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rvQrLbxO_A

I can understand his frustration, but national treasure? That's a little ridicules.

Um, yes it is. If you're living in an anarchist society you can use whatever you want for money. If you want to use bitcoins that's fine. All you have to do is find someone willing to do business with you in bitcoins. If I want to use goats that's fine to. No one would be forcing you to use any one thing as money.

According to various types of political anarchist (there's more than one group communist anarchist, ancap, etc) living in an anarchist society would be an improvement to civilization and not the fall of it. The view of a society is subjective. Some people place personal freedom above all else. In order for them to have the personal freedom they want a central government can't exist. They view the government as an entity that exists solely to rob, murder, and kidnap anyone who doesn't agree with their arbitrary laws.

In their society there would still be a need for money, because they would still be doing business with each other. Money is anything someone else places a value in. If you want to come work for me then we'd sign a contract that outlines what your job is and what compensation you require. I could pay you in gold, silver, goats, beads, etc.

What I said probably only pertains to ancap, because that's the only group I've actively read anything on. I plan to get to the other groups though.

If you or I believe that's a viable political structure is a different conversation.

There is a major difference between political anarchy and chaos. In political anarchy you still have order, but instead of a central government controlling everything it's done with voluntary contracts at the individual level. One of the core beliefs an anarchist has is personal freedom via volunteerism is the only real kind of freedom. There will still be a need for money in a society like that. It could be gold, silver, beads, goats, or whatever the two people doing business agree on.

If you or I believe that's a viable political structure is a different conversation.

Gold is even useful in a real anarchistic society.

For me personally, I hate dual booting. When I get stumped or just need a momentary break I'll load up WoW and dink around (go fishing, talk to guildies, etc). Then something will hit me I'll tab out or shut it down completely and go back to working on whatever the problem was. If I have to dual boot this isn't possible. The only reason I have a Mac is because it's the closest thing to Linux / Unix I can run that has native clients for the games and other programs I want. To be quite honest I'd never buy another mac again if I could get a native (or decent emulation) WoW client once my Steam library is all available on Linux.

Yes, I know you can run WoW in WINE, but it was horrible the last time I checked it out. I check it out every so often just in case it's gotten to the same level or even close to the same level as the native OSX client. Hopefully this will be a smashing success not only because he deserves it to be, but other game makers will take notice and possibly start developing native Linux clients for their games.

Replace EVE with WoW and I'd completely agree with you (I'm not saying EVE sucks or anything of the sort, but I play WoW and not EVE).

There's nothing solid about it. The emulation is garbage compared to the native clients.

Yeah no shit. I wish I could bid and actually have a chance at winning one of the contracts. Then it would at least get done and not cost 1 billion dollars.